City of London PDA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PDA over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Powys Reading Salford Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton St Helens Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wales Waltham Abbey Warrington Welling Welshpool Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	311	318
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	48	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.745 %	0.307 %
Salaries quoted	43	16
Average minimum salary	£29,465	£32,313
Average salary	£32,384	£34,750
% change on same period last year	-6.80 %
Average maximum salary	£35,302	£37,188
UK excluding London average salary	£34,475	£32,946
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Miscellaneous City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	6444	8152
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.394 %	3.344 %
Salaries quoted	5348	5956
Average minimum salary	£54,169	£59,611
Average salary	£61,086	£65,734
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Average maximum salary	£68,002	£71,856
UK excluding London average salary	£38,000	£39,211
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PDA across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PDA across the City of London region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PDA across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing PDA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PDA.

1 77 (85.56 %) Windows 2 63 (70.00 %) MS Exchange 3 62 (68.89 %) MS Office 4 58 (64.44 %) Windows XP 5 51 (56.67 %) Blackberry 6 48 (53.33 %) Active Directory 7 47 (52.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 40 (44.44 %) Microsoft 9 27 (30.00 %) Legal 10 26 (28.89 %) WorkSite 11 24 (26.67 %) Interwoven 12 22 (24.44 %) MS Excel 13 17 (18.89 %) Windows 2000 13 17 (18.89 %) Windows Server 2003 13 17 (18.89 %) Bloomberg

13 17 (18.89 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 15 (16.67 %) Finance 14 15 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 15 14 (15.56 %) Backup Exec 16 13 (14.44 %) Law 16 13 (14.44 %) Wireless 16 13 (14.44 %) Internet 16 13 (14.44 %) Reuters 17 12 (13.33 %) VERITAS 18 11 (12.22 %) Intranet 19 9 (10.00 %) Banking 20 8 (8.889 %) Investment Banking 20 8 (8.889 %) ITIL 21 7 (7.778 %) Citrix 22 6 (6.667 %) Windows NT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing PDA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PDA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 63 (70.00 %) MS Exchange 2 47 (52.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 26 (28.89 %) WorkSite 4 17 (18.89 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (2.222 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.111 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.111 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Applications 1 62 (68.89 %) MS Office 2 22 (24.44 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.222 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (1.111 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.111 %) Acrobat
Communications & Networking 1 15 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (14.44 %) Internet 2 13 (14.44 %) Wireless 3 11 (12.22 %) Intranet 4 4 (4.444 %) VPN 5 3 (3.333 %) LAN 5 3 (3.333 %) WAN 6 2 (2.222 %) Firewall 7 1 (1.111 %) 3G 7 1 (1.111 %) SMS 7 1 (1.111 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.111 %) SAN	Development Applications 1 2 (2.222 %) WinRunner 1 2 (2.222 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (2.222 %) LoadRunner
General 1 27 (30.00 %) Legal 2 15 (16.67 %) Finance 3 13 (14.44 %) Law 4 9 (10.00 %) Banking 5 8 (8.889 %) Investment Banking 6 3 (3.333 %) Insurance 7 2 (2.222 %) Pensions 7 2 (2.222 %) Health 8 1 (1.111 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.111 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 63 (70.00 %) Analyst 2 55 (61.11 %) Support Analyst 3 39 (43.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 36 (40.00 %) Helpdesk Support 5 35 (38.89 %) Desktop Support 6 34 (37.78 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 7 26 (28.89 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 26 (28.89 %) Desktop Analyst 8 24 (26.67 %) IT Support Analyst 9 8 (8.889 %) Support Engineer 10 6 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 10 6 (6.667 %) Desktop Engineer 10 6 (6.667 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 6 (6.667 %) PC Support 10 6 (6.667 %) PC Support Engineer 10 6 (6.667 %) PC Engineer 11 4 (4.444 %) Systems Engineer 11 4 (4.444 %) Technical Support 12 3 (3.333 %) Trainer 12 3 (3.333 %) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 51 (56.67 %) Blackberry 2 2 (2.222 %) Handset 3 1 (1.111 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.111 %) Streaming Media	Operating Systems 1 77 (85.56 %) Windows 2 58 (64.44 %) Windows XP 3 17 (18.89 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (18.89 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (6.667 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.111 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.889 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.222 %) Fund Management 2 2 (2.222 %) Load Testing 2 2 (2.222 %) Investment Management 2 2 (2.222 %) Time Management 2 2 (2.222 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (1.111 %) Validation 3 1 (1.111 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (2.222 %) Java 2 1 (1.111 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 4 (4.444 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (3.333 %) A+ Certification 2 3 (3.333 %) Network+ Certification 2 3 (3.333 %) MCSE 2 3 (3.333 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.111 %) MCP 3 1 (1.111 %) HND 3 1 (1.111 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.333 %) SLA 2 1 (1.111 %) QA
System Software 1 48 (53.33 %) Active Directory 2 14 (15.56 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (5.556 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 4 (4.444 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.111 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 40 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 24 (26.67 %) Interwoven 3 17 (18.89 %) Bloomberg 4 13 (14.44 %) Reuters 5 12 (13.33 %) VERITAS 6 7 (7.778 %) Citrix 7 5 (5.556 %) Peregrine 7 5 (5.556 %) Remedy 8 4 (4.444 %) Symantec 8 4 (4.444 %) HP 9 2 (2.222 %) Lotus 10 1 (1.111 %) Apple 10 1 (1.111 %) Compaq 10 1 (1.111 %) Dell 10 1 (1.111 %) Adobe 10 1 (1.111 %) Novell